[Openbts-announce] OpenBTS Workshop

[David B. <dbu...@ke...>]

To Anyone Interested in Using OpenBTS -

There will be a 3 & 1/2 day workshop on OpenBTS deployment and  
development, conducted on 23-26 June 2010 on a farm near  
Pfarrkirchen, Germany.  This rural environment will afford  
participants the chance to set up, operate and "hack" multiple medium- 
sized outdoor BTS sites.  This will be an immersive workshop, with  
morning, afternoon and evening sessions and most meals taken together  
as a group.

The cost of this workshop will be 1500 EUR with a 500 EUR discount  
for students, faculty members and employees of non-profit  
organizations.  This is an ALL INCLUSIVE cost.  The workshop will  
arrange for all meals, lodging in Pfarrkirchen and ground  
transportation from Munich airport on 23 June and returning there on  
27 June.

The tentative schedule is:

23 June
evening -- Introductions and welcome dinner.

24 June
morning -- An overview of the OpenBTS approach and the hardware "kit".
afternoon -- Installing OpenBTS sites around the farm property.
evening -- Configuration #1: isolated cells and an initial tour of  
OpenBTS.config and the CLI.

25 June
morning -- GSM/SIP mobility and PSTN connectivity.
afternoon -- Configuration #2: a unified network and a closer look at  
OpenBTS.config, the CLI and GSM-TAP with Wireshark.
evening -- SMS on Um, SIP/SIMPLE, messaging gateways and smqueue.

26 June
morning -- Implementing custom short code services in smqueue.
afternoon -- TBD, based on participant demand.
evening -- Farewells and closing dinner.


We need at least 10 people enrolled by mid-April to cover all of the  
costs but may not be able to accommodate more than 15.  Some time in  
the next few days, we will set up an online registration site and  
will make another announcement then.


Thanks,
David

David A. Burgess
Kestrel Signal Processing, Inc.